Friday, September 18, 2009

Octonauts Themed Birthday For Dakota!

Do you know the brilliant illustrators of Meomi? They make the cutest characters, including these soon to be even more famous ones. Monice phoned me a few months ago to request very special themed cupcakes for her daughter Dakota's birthday, Octonauts themed! The Octonauts are a creation of Meomi, and there are storybooks featuring some crazy characters and cool, bonkers undersea adventures. Dakota's fave characters are Tweek the Bunny, Kwazii the Kitten and Barnacles the Bear, so I spent many hours slaving away in creating these adorable little faces out of fondant and edible marker, and also decided to make the pink jellyfish perplexed face too!

The cake was also a labour of love, chocolate with vanilla buttercream, topped with light blue underwater fondant, swaying seaweed, little starfish and mini blue rufflefish, and for a topper, a pink blowfish! I got to meet Dakota, she is so sweet and cute, and absolutely loved the cupcakes... she even said "they smell so good!!" Meeting the recipients of the cakes I work so hard on and seeing their excited reaction really makes me happy.

Apologies for yet again a mega picture explosion... I loved this order so much, and was so grateful that I could add some Meomi-powered sunshine to little Dakota's world.

I love the mega picture explosion! The more the better! These characters are so cute, I adore Lieutenant Kwazii Kitten! I can tell the amount of love are care you put into this order, it really shines through, I bet the little girl was speechless with delight!

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Welcome to Coco Cake Land! I'm a rated G party animal who loves making cakes, dreaming up simple party DIY's and tutorials and photographing, styling and writing about it all. I live in Vancouver, BC Canada with my husband and kid. My background is in Women's Studies, Film Studies and Integrated Media. Jobby stuff: I am a self taught baker and I custom bake cakes inspired by vintage buttercream techniques and supercute illustration. I love blogging and I write for several other blogs including Poppytalk, You Are My Fave, Handmade Charlotte and Craftsy!